Excuses

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Some pub names in Finland: "At My In-Laws", "At My Brother's" - were designed to provide natural excuses for husbands to pacify angry wives, eg: "Where have you been all evening?!" - "At my Brother's". They do it in the Czech Republic, too. One of Prague's pub is called "At a Local Bookshop"! - the best excuse ever...

According to HM Customs & Revenue in 2006, these are the top ten reasons (in reverse order) employers give for breaking the law by paying their workers less than the National Minimum Wage:

10. I only took him on as a favour
9. The workers can't speak English
8. He's over 65, so the national minimum wage doesn't apply
7. She's on benefits - if you add those to her pay, it totals the NMW
6. They can't cope on their own and it's more than they would get in their own country
5. He's disabled
4. I didn't think it applied to small employers
3. I didn't think the workers were worth NMW
2. But she only wanted £3 an hour
1. He doesn't deserve it - he's a total waste of space

I like number two best - the idea that the boss is merely following the employee’s personal preferences!

There is an attempt at http://research.haifa.ac.il/~benzeev/excuses.htm by Shlomo Hareli (Department of Psychology, University of Haifa) to define excuses; this is a paper presented to the International Society for Research on Emotions, Toronto, 1996.